Thursday, December 3, 2009

Nova Scotia Provincial Poll

The Chronicle-Herald is reporting on a new Corporate Research Associates poll.So the Nova Scotia New Democrats still have a mighty lead over their opponents, though this does mark a drop of seven points since the last CRA poll in August.

The Liberals are up three points while the Progressive Conservatives are up five. The Greens are down two.

Darrell Dexter is still the top choice for Premier at 44%, interestingly well below his party's support level. This is not the case for Liberal leader Stephen McNeil, with 21% support, but is with the Progressive Conservative leader (yet to be chosen) who is at 12%.

The NDP is still well above the 45% they earned in the June election, while the Liberals (27%) and Progressive Conservatives (25%) are still punching below their weight.

So, good news for the NDP in Nova Scotia. You'd think that would be good news for the federal NDP in Nova Scotia, but we haven't seen big numbers from them in the region lately.

9 comments:

Atlantic Canada is tough to call. The Dippers are very popular provincially in NS and I suspect that if NS numbers could be broken out of the regional federal numbers I suspect they'd be fairly strong too. The Dippers are nowhere federally in NB except for one riding. Also they fair only so so in NL. PEI is a write off for them.

It the populist politics the NDP in NS runs. They listen too the people and try to do what they say with in reason. At the same time they come of fiscally conservative and transparent.

That is why it is hard to knock an NDP government once they win once. They preach when out of power but when they get in power they don't legislate along party lines. They just take all the good ideas from all the parties and pretend they are all their own.

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